Director, Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality & Social Policy Isabelle and Scott Black Professor of Political Economy Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Research interests: Poverty and welfare, economic mobility. Labor economics, family change, low pay and unemployment, changing structure of American families.
Research interests: Applied economics. Intersection of race, education and government. Educational and political ramifications of acts of police violence. Effects of federal election oversight on minority turnout and political polarization.
Director, Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy Professor of Public Policy (Harvard Kennedy School) Professor of Education and Economics (HGSE)
Research interests: Economics of skill development, education, and the labor market. The long-run influence of school accountability: impacts, mechanisms, and policy implications. The growing return to social skills in the labor market.
Research interests: Broadely, causes and consequences of poverty in the US; racial bias in the criminal justice system; the labor market consequences of bad credit reports; and the long-run effects of charter schools.
Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government
Research interests: Political scientist. How participation, deliberation and transparency can make contemporary public governance more fair and effective.
Malcolm Wiener Professor of Social Policy, Emeritus
Research interests: Changes in family structure over the past generation, the costs and benefits of economic inequality, the extent to which economic advantages are inherited, and the effects of welfare reform.
Matthew W. Stirling Jr. Professor of History and Social Policy
Research interests: Historian, with a focus on explanation of issues that have contemporary policy implications. Election reform, the history of democracies, and the history of poverty.
Thornton F. Bradshaw Professor in Public Management Co-founder, Harvard Decision Science Laboratory
Research interests: A psychologist who draws on insights from psychology, economics, and neuroscience in order to elucidate human judgment and decision making. Predicting effects of specific emotions on specific judgment and choice outcomes. Expanding the evidentiary base for designing public policies that maximize human wellbeing.
